SONGS Decommissioning Solutions – a joint venture between Aecom and EnergySolutions – has been selected as the decommissioning general contractor by Southern California Edison (SCE) for the San Onofre nuclear power plant. Units 2 and 3 at the plant were shut down in June 2013. world-nuclear-news.org

Radioactive sludge has been transferred out of the world’s oldest nuclear fuel pond for the first time, the UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) and Sellafield Ltd announced yesterday. The project is being delivered ten years ahead of schedule and for half the expected cost, they said in a joint statement. world-nuclear-news.org

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Thursday that it had issued two Combined Licenses for Duke Energy Carolinas’ two-reactor project proposed for a site near Gaffney, South Carolina, but the fate of the project remains far from certain. nuclearstreet.com

Can an agreement allay fears of a looming nuclear accident in Belgium? Two of its power stations, situated very close to Germany, are causing considerable alarm. dw.com